# You Might Be A Geek If ............... **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [April 24, 2003, 6:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-might-be-a-geek-if/170921 "2003-04-24T18:49:38Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![detop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/bcef8e/32.png) [@detop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/detop)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2003, 1:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-might-be-a-geek-if/170921/81 "2003-04-27T01:13:36Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by nevermore \* > **…your most common complaint about a movie is "There wasn’t enough blood."** Actually, mine is “The violence is not realistic” > [@](#): > > _Originally posted by GingerOf The North_ > \*\*You Might Be A Geek If … > > Oh please. You’re a geek if you’re reading this thread.\*\* Addendum : You Might Be A Geek If… You post to this thread 😃 ---
**Author:** ![lurker\_anonymous](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/9fc348/32.png) [@lurker\_anonymous](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lurker_anonymous)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2003, 1:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-might-be-a-geek-if/170921/82 "2003-04-27T01:31:06Z")
the new tape isnt as sticky as the old tape ---
**Author:** ![as\_u\_wish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/6f9a4e/32.png) [@as\_u\_wish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/as_u_wish)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2003, 2:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-might-be-a-geek-if/170921/83 "2003-04-27T02:56:19Z")
Not only are you a geek, but your life is filled with geekishness if… …your children won’t let you have the dictionary or thesaurus because they know you will become absorbed for hours …you’ve raised your children to be so persnickety about grammar that they correct you if you speak incorrectLY …you read textbooks for fun …you can’t leave the public library without making two trips to the car; library fines are a line item in the family budget …you use terms like “line item in the family budget” …the best treat day at your office is March 14, at 1:59 pm (all 9 kinds of pie that Harold liked best) …when your son could barely walk, he took a newspaper sword and lisped “hello, my name is Inigo Montoya, you killed my father, prepare to die.” …you go out to dinner at a nice restaurant and everyone in the family has a book with them ---
**Author:** ![Iacob\_Matthew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Iacob\_Matthew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Iacob_Matthew)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2003, 3:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-might-be-a-geek-if/170921/84 "2003-04-27T03:06:21Z")
Seldon: > [@](#): > > You don’t bother memorizing your equations for chem/physics because you can figure out how to get the answer during the test. Or, you’re pissed anyone else passed, because everyone else memorizes equations while you’ve just been “solving for the units” since the end of the first grading period. … you convert everything into metric/Kelvins in head, instantaneously, even if it’s just to remember it, because it’s easier. … you say “Kelvins” and become noticably ired when someone says “degrees Kelvin.” … you know what a Mantissa is and how to use sig figs with it … you developed your own “change of base” formula way back in trignometry because the teacher’s couldn’t be programmed into a calculator/only worked by going through base 10, but never used it because that took took longer than doing it in your head. … people in later courses still use it, it’s now part of the final in all introductory programming courses, and all of the students just there because they have shiny new computers in the room that can play games in school begin to “fall in love with you” about two weeks beforehand, regardless of gender, because they honestly believe anyone that geeky has to be desperate. … the inevitable “your friends refuse to go to movies with you anymore because” list is longer than this box You ARE a European History geek if Looking through the TV guide before you turn on the TV, you see something about 1865 and you’re upset it’s about Lincoln’s assassination instead of the Crimean War. You waited for half an hour because you consider the whole war funny enough to be worth it. I’m a geek of all trades, master of none. ---
**Author:** ![Cyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a88e4f/32.png) [@Cyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cyn)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2003, 5:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-might-be-a-geek-if/170921/85 "2003-04-27T05:36:39Z")
might be…spending a child-free Saturday night, alone with my husband, **Drachillix** , sipping margaritas in our night clothes in the back bedroom…side-by-side at our own computers at our individual desks, Doping. We’re networked…that’s romantic, right? ---
**Author:** ![Cleophus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a88e57/32.png) [@Cleophus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cleophus)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2003, 6:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-might-be-a-geek-if/170921/86 "2003-04-27T06:00:38Z")
…you spend copious amounts of time planning, designing, and implementing a system for accessing resources, through the Internet, on one’s home network from anywhere. …you run Kismet and search for wireless networks when in the car. +2 if you find encryped networks and seriously consider cracking them. …you name your computer **s**. …you not only participate in a MOO, but build and run one as well. ---
**Author:** ![Carcosa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/b3f665/32.png) [@Carcosa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Carcosa)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2003, 7:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-might-be-a-geek-if/170921/87 "2003-04-27T07:48:39Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by gotpasswords \* > \*\*You have a file cabinet full of mice, LAN cables, keyboards, spare NICs and security tokens. None of them are in 100% working order. \*\* But you can use some of that stuff in your robotics projects. Especially the parts ripped out of old printers. Oh, how I rejoice when a printer bites the dust - - - stepper motor heaven! ---
**Author:** ![ravesaint](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/eb8c5e/32.png) [@ravesaint](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ravesaint)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2003, 12:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-might-be-a-geek-if/170921/88 "2003-04-27T12:25:59Z")
You **are** a geek if you read that the bologna… > [@](#): > > “Ain’t got much tensile strength, does it?” —And think, 'Ya know, I could hang a slice on the Instron and find out exactly what the tensile is…" —You’ve ever paid 50pp for a KEI and PoTG so you can solo the last 20% of xp to make your lvl. —You’ve ducked out of a night of partying with friends so you could find out what happens in the next chapter of the book you’re reading. ---
**Author:** ![Cisco](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ccd318/32.png) [@Cisco](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cisco)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2003, 12:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-might-be-a-geek-if/170921/89 "2003-04-27T12:28:36Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by ravesaint \* > \*\*—You’ve ever paid 50pp for a KEI and PoTG so you can solo the last 20% of xp to make your lvl. > > \*\* Ahhh. This month marks my second birthday, what have I been missing? ---
**Author:** ![ravesaint](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/eb8c5e/32.png) [@ravesaint](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ravesaint)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2003, 12:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-might-be-a-geek-if/170921/90 "2003-04-27T12:53:20Z")
Hmmm, birthday away, or birthday inside? If away, first off grats, and second off you’re missing some badass mana regen buffs that are readily available in the Nexus 24/7 for a small donation. The stuff is _so_ worth it. If inside, where the hell have you been? Extended vacation in TD? This _IS_ the geek thread, right? Hopefully the cutie doper ladies wont come here, unless of course they dig us geeks 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Cisco](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ccd318/32.png) [@Cisco](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cisco)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2003, 12:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-might-be-a-geek-if/170921/91 "2003-04-27T12:58:43Z")
Birthday in the EverCrack Anonymous sense of the word. I was a Rogue (played every class beyond lvl 25 at one point or another but I was always a rogue at heart ;)) so I’m not really missing the mana buffs, and unless you’re talking about a server, I don’t even know what The Nexus is :). I do know that A LOT has changed since I left. I never even made it to Velious. It was a few months old when I left but I was too busy in Kunark to bother at the time. ---
**Author:** ![ravesaint](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/eb8c5e/32.png) [@ravesaint](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ravesaint)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2003, 1:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-might-be-a-geek-if/170921/92 "2003-04-27T13:42:09Z")
It’s a whole different ballgame now. My main (Wiz) started out just after Kunark was released, and eventually made his way to lvl 55 over the span of about two years. I just started out my baby Cleric less than two months ago and he’s already at 35. Those mana buffs help you even if you’re mellee, cause your healers can go longer without a med. If you have the free time, now’s a good time to come back. Course, if you don’t have the free time, stay the hell away 🙂 Hmmm, I think I have just transcended ‘Geek’ and progressed on to ‘Complete and Irreconcileable Dork.’ Bah, I gives a damn 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![NinetyWt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/cc9497/32.png) [@NinetyWt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NinetyWt)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2003, 4:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-might-be-a-geek-if/170921/93 "2003-04-27T16:35:23Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by ravesaint \* > \*\* Hopefully the cutie doper ladies wont come here, unless of course they dig us geeks 😉 \*\* aa… HEM. Let the record show that the Original Poster _ **is** _ a Cute Doper Lady. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![herwono](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/9f8e36/32.png) [@herwono](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/herwono)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2003, 1:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-might-be-a-geek-if/170921/94 "2003-04-28T13:52:06Z")
Another IB geek here. 😃 -you spend more time sleeping in class than at home. -you wonder about things like what would happen if your car traveled at the speed of light and your turned your lights on. -you footnote everything -you think the world is a hexagon -you sign checks with your candidate number -it rains and you carry your umbrella over your backpack instead of yourself. -you see symbolism in real life and start to analyze it before realizing it’s insane You may be an internet geek if… You know more URLs than street addresses. Your pet has a web page. You send an e-mail to someone sitting next to you. You get up at 3 a.m. to go to the bathroom and stop to check your email on your way back to bed. You chat with someone while talking to them on the phone. ---
**Author:** ![Angua](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8baadc/32.png) [@Angua](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Angua)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2003, 2:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-might-be-a-geek-if/170921/95 "2003-04-28T14:04:45Z")
If you worked out a formula to remember stopping distances for your driving theory test, because you find it easier to remember formulae and plug numbers in on the fly, rather than just a few numbers… ---
**Author:** ![Quantum\_Butterfly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/e79b87/32.png) [@Quantum\_Butterfly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quantum_Butterfly)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2003, 4:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-might-be-a-geek-if/170921/96 "2003-04-28T16:14:15Z")
> [@](#): > > This IS the geek thread, right? Hopefully the cutie doper ladies wont come here, unless of course they dig us geeks **Ravesaint** , I think it’s safe to say that any Cutie Doper Lady who posts on this thread is a geek herself. I certainly am! 😃 And of course I dig geeks. “Normal” people do not comprehend the Geekly World! ---
**Author:** ![NinetyWt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/cc9497/32.png) [@NinetyWt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NinetyWt)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2003, 4:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-might-be-a-geek-if/170921/97 "2003-04-28T16:39:56Z")
Ya know, **QB** , I’ve been thinking about that. Reckon how many Cutie Doper Ladies he miffed with that statement? 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Oicu812](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/f475e1/32.png) [@Oicu812](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oicu812)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2003, 6:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-might-be-a-geek-if/170921/98 "2003-04-28T18:33:44Z")
**You might be a Medieval Geek if you…:** …ever chased a burglar. While naked. With a sword. And you are okay with it… …have ever corrected your King about some of the finer points of the Knight Templar order, and their role in the Crusades. …have ever contemplated building a matchlock pistol. Because no one sells the damned things any more… Ditto for a bombard. Or you even know what one IS. You have a photo of yourself in your cube. In garb. Your boss cuts out any medieval based cartoons and gives them to you to put up in your cube. **You might be a Unix Geek if you…:** …laughed at the shell, C and perl references in this thread! …if you realize that EVERY line of Vanilla Toasts’ post applies to you! …if you use vi. With joy. And consider anyone who doesn’t a “Johnny~Come~Lately”. …if the Unix Admins for your company come ask **YOU** for help on different, esoteric problems! …you obfu perl code. Just for fun. Or job security. …you know two backdoors onto your system, all the security holes, and can bring up a root prompt in a matter of seconds, and you AREN’T the administrator. …you have ever written a four line shell script that warns you when your boss logs on. Or off. And schedule it. O ---
**Author:** ![VunderBob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/839c29/32.png) [@VunderBob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VunderBob)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2003, 7:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-might-be-a-geek-if/170921/99 "2003-04-28T19:02:49Z")
> [@](#): > > \*\*\*Originally posted by BlackKnight \* > > You might be a computer geek if … > You try to fix car problems by turning the engine off, then back on again. > \*\* I owned a Mercury Zephyr with a flakey engine control computer where this actually worked… > [@](#): > > \*\* > You cringe when someone says they “programmed” in HTML. > \*\* Now wait a minute!!! As an academic exercise for a Data Networking class, I’m working on a remote database server that uses a web browser as a terminal. I have SEVERAL places where I use C to write output pages from scratch as HTML files. I HAVE programmed in HTML… They work just fine, too, but look pretty sucky ---
**Author:** ![Finite\_Elephant](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/a88e57/32.png) [@Finite\_Elephant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Finite_Elephant)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2003, 8:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-might-be-a-geek-if/170921/100 "2003-04-28T20:05:08Z")
-You caught yourself mentally classifying the soil at a graveside service for a relative. Using USDA classification. -You’ve ever assumed a person weighs a kip to make the math easier. -You added an RPN calculator program to your Palm Pilot because you can’t use any other kind. -The deck you built on your house is capable of supporting a helicopter (you know, in case of injured partygoers). -You know what “kip” and “RPN” mean. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-might-be-a-geek-if/170921.md?page=4) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-might-be-a-geek-if/170921.md?page=6)